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Back on March 6, the Virginia Flaggers through their blog assured us that a flag they had helped erect in Rockbridge County outside Lexington was not coming down, desite the fact that local authorities had raised questions about the flagpole’s location.

So after almost three months of being ridiculed, insulted, and threatened with lawsuits, local officials turn out to be less-than-fully-sympathetic to Brian Roswey’s giant roadside erection flagpole? There’s a shocker.

It’s amazing how some heritage folks feel entitled to act like the most belligerent, self-important assholes on the planet, and expect everyone else to treat them with the sort of respect, courtesy, and deference they themselves cannot seem to display.